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Congress is making another run at rewriting the Bush-era No Child Left Behind education law, even as the Obama administration urges changes it says would ensure that schools are held accountable when their students are seriously lagging behind their peers in better-performing schools. The Senate opened debate Tuesday on an update to the 2002 law,…
SARASOTA – Josh Mocherman, a nuclear science and chemistry teacher at Riverview High School, took the SAT 21 years ago. He does not remember what he scored, but his performance on the test he took during his junior year of high school could affect his pay as a teacher next year. The Florida Legislature this…
It was a so-so legislative season for early education in Florida. A bill that would have raised health and safety standards for voluntary pre-kindergarten and school-readiness programs failed for the second year in a row. State leaders added no new money to voluntary pre-K, which serves 170,000 4-year-olds — while per-student spending remains well below…
Information the Florida Department of Education recently sent to school district superintendents indicates that the state will distribute $60 million in Digital Classrooms improvement funds despite Gov. Rick Scott’s veto of a “gap analysis” that lawmakers had requested occur before the money is delivered. At least one lawmaker questioned whether the veto negatively affected the…